Emerging Genres in New Media Environments
This volume explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres. New media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural prod
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Carolyn R. Miller and Ashley R. Kelly
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Emerging Genres in New Media Environments
Carolyn R. Miller • Ashley R. Kelly Editors
Emerging Genres in New Media Environments
Editors Carolyn R. Miller (Emerita) North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Ashley R. Kelly Department of English Language & Literature University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-40294-9 ISBN 978-3-319-40295-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40295-6
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Contemporary digital media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural production, provoking all manner of multimodal experimentation, artistic and entrepreneurial innovation, and adaptive construction and reconstruction. Working with the concept of genre, scholars in multiple fields have begun to explore these processes of innovation, emergence, and stabilization. Genre has thus become newly important in rhetoric, literature, media studies, game studies, library and information science, applied linguistics, and other disciplinary locations. Understood as social recognitions that embed histories, ideologies, and contradictions, genres function as recurrent social actions which help to constitute culture: thus systems of genres can tell us a great deal about social values and cultural power. Because genres are dynamic sites of tension between stability and change, they are also sites of inventive potential. Conceptually positioned bet
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